Em Software’s Xcatalog lets you create bi-directional links between a QuarkXPress document and an external database. You can link any picture or text element, from a single character to a phrase or paragraph or entire story. It’s excellent for making…

The 2012 Salary Guide…, from The Creative Group, lists the starting salary ranges for design and marketing positions in the United States and Toronto. Get a free copy of this 13-page guide at www.creativegroup.com/SalaryCenter.
You can also use their

One way to convert an existing font to a Web font (for embedding into a Web page) is to use FontSquirrel’s @font-face Generator. This free service will convert any font, so be sure you have the legal right to do…

In yesterday’s press release from Quark, I noticed that they’ve won several important awards:
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QuarkXPress 9 Awards…
Since its launch QuarkXPress 9 has generated high recognition from industry influencers, including the following awards:

Macworld UK Best Creative Design Software of

OS X 10.7 (Lion) doesn’t include drivers for some older printers, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use them with Lion — even if you can’t find an installer!
Assuming you already have the printer driver you need installed on…

In Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), Apple decided to hide window scroll bars unless you’re actually moving up or down in a window’s view. Unfortunately, those bars don’t always appear when they should, but you can make them always show.…

Ray Cheung collected 35 outstanding examples of portfolio websites. For some inspiration, see it here:
http://www.webappers.com/2011/03/08/35-professionally-designed-personal-portfolio-websites/

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Amazon and Barnes and Noble are fighting for the small-screen media tablet market with their latest ebook readers. Amazon’s Kindle Fire ($199) and the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet ($249) both include 7-inch touch-based color displays, built-in ebook readers, and video…

Adobe recently killed the Mobile Flash Player and will instead focus its efforts on Flash for desktop computers.
Adobe conceded that Flash just isn’t suited for mobile devices and that HTML 5 and CSS are much better options — something…

Script fonts are perfect for holiday projects! Through Nov 30, Fonts.com is offering 20% off all their script fonts. Just use code DKCXC… during checkout.
Try out their more than 3,000 script fonts here.

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QuarkXPress has powerful tools for creating Flash-based animations. If you would like to convert those animations to a universally supported industry standard, consider these free services:
Swiffy:…
Google Labs’ Swiffy is a free service for converting animations from SWF (Flash)

If you’re looking for a quick way to see how a word or sentence would look in every active font on your computer — perhaps for a logo or headline — check out www.Wordmark.it.
It has just a few controls,…

Print Buyers International has a useful, free online glossary of print-related terms. I think you’ll be surprised at how handy it is — and you can suggest your own terms …to the glossary!

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Watch the 15th Annual Webby Awards show (hosted by Lisa Kudrow) in its entirety on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/webby?x=9kRTziHVSGI
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Ikea and Pottery Barn have free catalogs available as apps for iPads, via the iTunes store. Both are worth seeing for their cleverness and utility.
When searching, be sure to get “IKEA Catalog for iPad”, and not “IKEA Catalogue”, which is…

If you’re creating EPUBs and want to be sure they conform to standards expected by all EPUB reader software, you can use the EPUB Validator… tool at www.threepress.org. Just upload your EPUB file and you’ll get a report.

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The AIGA|Aquent Survey of Design Salaries 2011 draws from an extensive pool of designers and others allied with the profession nationwide, and includes responses from more than 7,000 design professionals. It is widely recognized as the most comprehensive survey of…

If you’re looking for a little design inspiration, why not look to the past? Philipp Lenssen has created a pair of websites showcasing ads and covers of comics, books, and more from the last 130 years. The two sites, Vintage…

Continuing in their insanely valuable series of FREE webinars, CreativeLive.com is offering two full days of “Taking Care of Business” on Sept 9-10…. Below is the description. Register for it here.
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A great source for design inspiration is to stroll back through poster designs of days gone by.
Founded by Andre Felipe, Typo/Graphic Posters is an online directory of typographic and graphic posters featuring nice-sized thumbnails that you can click to…